Packaging of confections



May 14, 1929. L. G. ROSSKAM PACKAGING 0F CONFECTIONS Filed pct. 25, 1927 Patented May 14, 1929.

UNITED STATES 1, 01 PATENT, OFFICE.

LESTER G. 'BOSSKAmgOF PHILADELPHIA, rENnsYLv NIA,' Assienonjyro ,QUAKER CITY CHOCOLATE & CONFECTIONARY COMPANY, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL- vAnIA, A CORPORA ION 01* 'IENNSYLVANIA.

PACKAGING or oonrnorions.

This invention relates to improvements in the packaging of confections, such as candy, and the principal object of the invention is to provide a novel package whereby different types of confections, both hard and soft, may be shipped in a single container without danger of injury to the contents.

In the attached drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a container made in accordance with my invention, with the upper tray and the lid of the inner container removed, and

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation showing the completely assembled package.

In the embodiment of my invention illustrated in the drawings, the package is made up of an outer or main container 1, this container taking the form in the present in stance of a wooden bucket or pail. In the bottom of this pail is placed, in the present instance, a heterogeneously assembled assortment 2 of relatively hard candy or candy of a type such that the individual pieces thereof are not likely to become damaged by the other pieces with which it is in direct and intimate contact.

In packages of this type, it is frequently desirable to include candies which are relatively soft and which by reason of their delicate composition cannot be heterogeneously assembled and must be more or less separated from each other or confined in such a man-.

ner that they are not subject to any crushing or abrading action.

In the present instance, I provide above the assortment 2 in the bottom of the pail a suitable partitioning member. 3 which may be made for example of cardboard, and this par- Within this container 4 is arranged in orderly and proper fashion the more delicate, confections, which as previously described must be separated from the mass of the more rugged varieties. The open spaces above the partition 8 and on each side of the container 4 I now fill with the harder or rougher types of candy of the same general type as those which occupy the bottom container space, these candies being built up in the s aces until they reach the level of the top the container 4, as clearly shown in 2 The top of the container 4, however, is kept below the top of the pail 1, thereby leaving space for one or more upper layers of a varied as;

sortment of candies assembled in a tray or trays preferably inorderly and sightly ar- I rangement. In the present instance, the individual pieces of this upper layer are placed in the well known pleated paperreceptacles. With the lid of the pail 1 removed, this upper layer is visible and affords a highly ornamental appearance. In some instances, the tray 5 may function as a lid for the container 4 as well as a cover for the spaces at each side of the inner container 4'which are filled with the harder candies.

By the foregoing arrangement, a package isprovided in which the relatively soft'and finer grades of candy may be safely'shipped without the necessity for special and relatively expensive containers, and in substantially the same manner and with no more eX- pense than the cheaper and harder grades of vides a highly desirable display package for candy. -At the same time, the invention promoving or partially removing the tray 5, the

contents of the pail will be disclosed including the container 4 which may be readily withdrawn when desired fromits bed.

p I claim:

.1. A confection package comprising. an outer strong container, an inner relatively light container enclosing a delicate confection of relatively easily abraded character, and a rugged relatively strong confection the pieces of which are heterogeneously assembled .1n the spaces at the sides and bottom of the innercontainer so as to confine the latter and insulateit from the sides of "the walls,

of the outer container.

, 2. A confection package comprislngan outer strong container, an inner relatively I light container enclosing a delicate confection of relatively'easily abraded character, a rugged strong confection the pieces of which are heterogeneously assembled in the spaces at the sides and bottom of the inner container so as to. confine the latterand insulate it from the sides of the walls'of the outer container, and a trayv overlying the top of the inner container and the adjacent spaces and constituting a cover for said inner container.

3. A confection package comprising. an

outer strong container, a heterogeneously assembled mass of relatively rugged confections in the bottom of sald container, apartition member overlying the said confections in the base of the container, an inner relatively light container enclosing a delicate and easily abraded confection, said container being so dimensioned as to afford spaces between the sides thereof and the walls of the container, a relatively rugged and heterogeneously assembled mass of confections in the said spaces, and a cover tray at the top of'the outer container overlying the said inner container and insulating the latter from the top of the outer container.

LESTER G. ROSSKAM; 

